MARY TAYLOR has been John Kasich’s lieutenant-governor since he was elected governor of Ohio in 2010. She backed all of his policies loyally, including the expansion of Medicaid and health insurance for the poor, and did not criticise Mr Kasich’s “Never Trump” campaign during his presidential candidacy. Yet when she campaigned to be the GOP candidate for the next governor of Ohio Ms Taylor claimed somewhat improbably that she had not talked to Mr Kasich in a year and that he had not endorsed her. Both claims were untrue, but Ms Taylor calculated she needed to distance herself from the Trump critic she had once served so dutifully, in order to win her party’s nomination for the governorship.
Ms Taylor’s gamble to recast herself as true Trumpian did not pay off. Mike DeWine, the attorney-general backed by the local GOP leadership, won the primary election on May 8th with 60% of the vote. The election was one of numerous primaries for November’s midterm elections in Ohio, where voters also decided on candidates for a Senate seat, 16...Continue reading
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